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Dr Ram Prasad Ghayal (Amitabh) is a surgeon whose scalpel proves to be a magic wand. He has a wife called Janaki (Dimple) and a brother called Bharat. Bharat is in love with a dancing doll Renu (Karishma) whom the baddie's brother (Deepak Tijouri) also loves.
Bharat, an architect refuses to sign a power project involving heavy kickbacks and heavier displacement (with so many scams in the air, what can one expect the plot to be). He is implicated in a plot and sent to jail. Unable to bear this humiliation, he apparently commits suicide and Renu marries Deepak instead of repenting her beloved's loss.
Now is the time for Dr Ram as 'Mrityudaata' to avenge the loss of his wife and his brother. He trades his scalpel for a machine gun and apron for a commando coat and cap.

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Dr Ram Prasad Ghayal (Amitabh Bachchan) is a renowned doctor who has been successful in all the operations in his career and has skillfully operated many delicate surgeries. He lives with his wife Janki (Dimple Kapadia) and brother Bharat (Arbaaz Ali Khan).

Bharat is in love with Renu (Karishma Kapoor), the daughter of Umeshchan Jain (Tiku Talsania). At the same time, Raja Tunga (Deepak Tijori), the brother of Rana Tunga (Mukesh Rishi) has a longing for Renu. The miscreant Raja with his mob severely assaults Bharat when Bharat resists Raja's advances towards Renu.

A corrupt minister Mohanlal (Ashish Vidyarthi) wants to execute a disastrous scheme called "Pawanghat Power Project" at the expense of the lives and property of the tribes living at the project site. He coaxes and later threatens Bharat, the concerned engineer to sign his approval for the project whereas Bharat refuses to endorse such a scheme.

On the other hand, Rana devises an evil plot against Bharat to wipe the latter out eventually leading to his brother Raja winning Renu. Bharat is framed for murdering a woman and Inspector Danapani (Mushtaq Khan), a subordinate of Rana, arrests him and puts him behind the bars. Woefully, Bharat dies in jail presumably by committing suicide. The agony of Bharat's death claims the life of Janki as well.

With the death of his beloved wife and brother, Dr Ram becomes desolate and alcoholic. Renu marries Raja, without any regret for the death of her former lover.

Now that Bharat is dead, Mohanlal conspires with Rana for the implementation of the power project. However, they end up becoming enemy of each other. Mohanlal plans to kill Raja. His henchmen attack Raja who is critically injured. Raja is admitted to hospital where Dr Ram is to conduct his operation. Renu fears that Dr Ram may kill Raja to take vengeance for the death of his brother.

She refuses to sign the operation papers but Dr Ram, who considers it his moral duty to save the life of a patient regardless of they being his friend or foe, conducts the operation. His expertise pays off as Raja is saved. He goes out to convey the news to Renu but returns to find Raja dead, beyond all his expectations. Renu files an F.I.R. against Dr Ram who is arrested and imprisoned.

In jail, Dr Ram meets an inmate bearing the number 92, Prof Nizamuddin Azad (Pran), a scientist of "Bharat Atomic Energy". He has been jailed after a false allegation of revealing confidential nuclear formulae to foreign nations. He tells Dr Ram that his brother Bharat did not commit suicide, but was tortured to death by Insp. Danapani, which he witnessed.

Dr Ram now realises that his past misfortune was a result of the evil motives of some antagonists of the nation. He becomes the Angel of Death (Mrityudaata), who will put all those malefactors to death.

Dr Ram breaks away from jail and nabs Insp. Danapani who says that Mohanlal planned the murder of Bharat using his clutches over police. He also says that Raja was killed by Dr Siddiqui (Avtar Gill) by cutting off the oxygen supply after Mohanlal bribed him to kill Raja. Dr Ram kicks Danapani off the building to death.

Meanwhile Mohanlal has allied with another influential politician Trilochan Tripathi a.k.a. TT or Terror of Terrors (Paresh Rawal) who keeps up an honest appearance among the masses but works for his own interests at the cost of the welfare of the public. Dr Ram corners Dr Siddiqui at the roof of Umeshchan Jain's house who confesses of killing Raja by accepting bribe from Mohanlal. Dr Ram captures a video of Dr Siddiqui's revelation before putting him to death. Soon, Dr Ram kills Mohanlal.

One day, Trilochan Tripathi addresses a gathering when Dr Ram publicly puts a video on view in which Tripathi signs an agreement with a foreign syndicate related to "Pawanghat Power Project". Later, Tripathi would befool the public with false promises of power distribution. The enraged crowd chases Tripathi through the streets when Rana arrives for his rescue. Rana fires at Dr Ram who burns Rana and Tripathi to death.

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Did you know? Abhishek Bachchan was a uncredited assistant to the film, where he also met his future wife Aishwarya Rai in August 1997 for the first time. Abhishek was scouting for location shoots for his home production in Switzerland, while Aishwarya was shooting ...Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya in the next village. Read More

This movie marked the comeback of superstar Amitabh Bachchan after a five-year sabbatical.

Amitabh Bachchan noticed "Daler Mehendi" at a wedding and was very impressed with his vocals he felt he should sing for his own film. The next day Amitabh rang Daler and Daler recorded the song the very next day when the film was already 90-95% complete. Amitabh called it "a last minute song".

Pran only agreed to do a cameo because his lengthy association with Amitabh Bachchan.

Abhishek Bachchan was a uncredited assistant to the film, where he also met his future wife Aishwarya Rai in August 1997 for the first time. Abhishek was scouting for location shoots for his home production in Switzerland, while Aishwarya was shooting ...Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya in the next village.

After the movie bombed at the box-office, critics wrote off Amitabh Bachchan's career.

A computer firm Raja Interactive merged with ABCL (Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited) to set up a touch screen kiosk at theater halls with the promotional game Death series.

After the film bombed at the box office, Amitabh Bachchan was questioned several times by the media what went wrong with the film. Amitabh would often reply that he had seen bits and parts of the film and had not seen the whole film.

For the film promotion 100's of children were hired to deck themselves in "angel of death" posters and made to walk Mumbai's street in the sweltering heat.

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